Category: Politics
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SINEMA GIVES HER NOD TO DEMOCRATS’ BILL
Democrats pushed ahead Friday on an estimated $730 billion package that in many ways reflects Sinema’s priorities and handiwork more than the other political figures who have played a key role in delivering on Biden’s signature domestic policy agenda. It was Sinema early on who rejected Biden’s plan to raise the corporate tax rate from…
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NEW STUDY SHOWS BLACK VOTERS ARE CONCERNED WITH NATION’S ECONOMY
The Black to the Futures Action Fund released on Thursday the findings of its year-long temperature check poll, which shows that Black America is most concerned with the state of the U.S. economy. Activist and study organizer Alicia Garza, of the Black to the Future Action Fund, told theGrio, “The number one issue for Black people…
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JUSTICE THOMAS CANCELS PLANS TO TEACH AT DC LAW SCHOOL
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has backed out of teaching a seminar at George Washington University’s law school in the nation’s capital, following student protests and the university’s statement of support for the conservative justice’s role on campus. “Justice Thomas informed GW Law that he is unavailable to co-teach a Constitutional Law Seminar this fall,”…
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WES MOORE WINS DEMOCRATIC RACE FOR MARYLAND GOVERNOR
Bestselling author Wes Moore won the Democratic primary for Maryland governor on Friday, setting up a general election contest against Republican Dan Cox, a hard-line conservative endorsed by former President Donald Trump. Moore, the author of the book “The Other Wes Moore” and the former CEO of an anti-poverty nonprofit, defeated a long list of…
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ON THE DOCKET: ATLANTA V. TRUMPWORLD
The criminal investigation into efforts by former President Donald J. Trump and his allies to overturn his election loss in Georgia has begun to entangle, in one way or another, an expanding assemblage of characters: A United States senator. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has put on display…
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BALTIMORE PROSECUTOR MARILYN MOSBY DEFEATED
Marilyn Mosby, a high-profile prosecutor who aligned herself with criminal justice reformers but ended up with legal problems of her own, has lost the Democratic primary for Baltimore state’s attorney to Ivan Bates, a defense attorney. Mosby, who was a two-term incumbent, rose to national prominence in 2015 when she pursued criminal charges against six…
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SUPREME COURT TO ISSUE SEPARATE RULINGS ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
The Supreme Court took a procedural step Friday that will allow the court’s first Black woman to participate in a high stakes challenge to affirmative action in college admissions. The court agreed in January to take up the issue by granting two cases — one involving Harvard, a private university, and the other from the…
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VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS, FIRST LADY TEST NEGATIVE FOR COVID
Vice President Kamala Harris tested negative for COVID-19 Thursday, a White House official told Fox News, though she said she was last with President Biden on Tuesday.Biden tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday and is experiencing “very mild symptoms,” according to the White House.The White House official said Harris tested negative Thursday morning and spoke with…
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DEMOCRATIC MAYORS PRESSURE BIDEN ON BORDER
Republicans’ approach of busing migrants to major U.S. cities to highlight border issues might be working now that the influx of people has prompted Democratic mayors from New York City and Washington, D.C. to call on President Joe Biden for help. On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams demanded that the federal government help…
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BIDEN TO HOST AFRICAN LEADERS
The U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit will be held Dec. 13-15 and demonstrate a commitment by the U.S. to Africa that Biden described as “enduring.” President Barack Obama held a similar summit in Washington in 2014, when Biden was his vice president. Go deeper
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BENNIE THOMPSON TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID
The chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Bennie Thompson, said Tuesday that has tested positive for the coronavirus and is experiencing “mild symptoms.” Thompson announced the positive result two days ahead of his panel’s final scheduled hearing, a prime-time event focusing on what former President Donald…
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AOC ARRESTED AT ABORTION RIGHTS PROTEST
More than a dozen House Democrats were arrested outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday during a demonstration that involved blocking the street to protest the high court’s June decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Among those arrested were Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Carolyn Maloney of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Cori…
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MLB SUSPENDS POLITICAL DONATIONS
Major League Baseball is suspending all political contributions in the wake of last week’s invasion of the U.S. Capitol by a mob loyal to President Donald Trump, joining a wave of major corporations rethinking their efforts to lobby Washington. “In light of the unprecedented events last week at the U.S. Capitol, MLB is suspending contributions…
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TRUMP IMPEACHED AGAIN
President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House for a historic second time Wednesday, charged with “incitement of insurrection” over the deadly mob siege of the Capitol in a swift and stunning collapse of his final days in office. Holed up at the White House, watching the proceedings on TV, Trump later released a…
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DOMINION VOTING SUES FORMER TRUMP LAWYER FOR $1.3 BILLION
The elections company Dominion Voting Systems, which has been at the center of many of President Trump’s conspiracy narratives about the 2020 election, filed suit Friday against one of the loudest amplifiers of those false stories. The company sued Sidney Powell, a lawyer who previously worked for the Trump campaign and who has spent much…
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REPUBLICANS FLEE FROM TRUMP
President Donald Trump’s steadfast grip on Republicans in Washington is beginning to crumble, leaving him more politically isolated than at any other point in his turbulent administration. The insurrection on the heels of a bruising election loss in Georgia accomplished what other low points in Trump’s presidency did not: force Republicans to fundamentally reassess their…
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CHAOS & VIOLENCE AT THE CAPITOL
The pro-Trump mob took over the presiding officer’s chair in the Senate, the offices of the House speaker and the Senate dais, where one yelled, “Trump won that election.”They mocked its leaders, posing for photos in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, one with his feet propped on her desk, another sitting in the…
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MCCONNELL BLOCKS MOVE TO PASS $2,000 CORONAVIRUS CHECKS
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday shot down a Democratic bid to answer President Donald Trump’s call for increased direct coronavirus payments to Americans, but the measure’s ultimate fate in the GOP-controlled chamber is unclear. He noted that Trump, who had voiced his displeasure with the size of the direct checks in the Covid-19…
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TRUMP ENDS OBAMA’S 12-YEAR RUN AS MOST ADMIRED MAN
President Trump has ended former President Obama’s 12-year run as the most admired man in America, edging out his predecessor in the annual Gallup survey released Tuesday. Eighteen percent of the survey’s respondents named Trump as their most admired man, compared to 15 percent who named Obama and 6 percent who named President-elect Joe Biden.…
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